Software Engineer - Image Recognition
Employment type: Part-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Avelgood Apps is creating cutting-edge audio and image recognition technologies that help people identify and engage with birds around them.We received a €20 000 grant from AppCampus (a joint project of Microsoft and Aalto University) to develop our audio recognition app for bird songs, called Twigle Bird Song Id, for Windows Phone and released it in April 2014. The iPhone version followed at the end of September and the Android app is still work in progress. We also won an award in the Opera Top Apps Award 2013.We are putting together a team of smart people to scale up the next big thing in birding. Join us in our endeavour.At Avelgood Apps you'll be joining a very small innovative team in a startup-like environment. We value innovation, ingenuity, fast iteration and team work. We offer a fast-paced, fun environment with smart people and a great opportunity to learn, grow and succeed, whilst making a profound impact on how people engage with nature and the world around them.

Job description:
Avelgood Apps is creating cutting-edge audio and image recognition technologies that help people identify and engage with birds around them.We received a €20 000 grant from AppCampus (a joint project of Microsoft and Aalto University) to develop our audio recognition app for bird songs, called Twigle Bird Song Id, for Windows Phone and released it in April 2014. The iPhone version followed at the end of September and the Android app is still work in progress. We also won an award in the Opera Top Apps Award 2013.We are putting together a team of smart people to scale up the next big thing in birding. Join us in our endeavour.At Avelgood Apps you'll be joining a very small innovative team in a startup-like environment where you will be telecommuting. We value innovation, ingenuity, fast iteration and team work. We offer a fast-paced, fun environment with smart people and a great opportunity to learn, grow and succeed, whilst making a profound impact on how people engage with nature and the world around them.This position is for an entrepreneurial minded person who thinks having their own start-up is the next stage of their evolution. We are offering a competitive reward in the form of stock options.About You:You love algorithms and working on complex problems that are at the frontiers of technology.You are a fast learner with strong programming skills, enabling you to meet aggressive deadlines while producing scalable and maintainable systems. You enjoy working individually and also as part of a small team.You dream of being a co-founder in your own start-up.Responsibilities:Employ machine learning to improve our bird image recognition system.Analyse and improve our existing algorithms to make them more accurate and faster.Design and implement new algorithms to power our services.

Requirements:
Working experience with machine learning techniques and image recognition/computer vision.A good first degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Physics or related field.Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms.Proficient in C++.Working experience with a technical computing environment like Octave, Matlab or Mathematica.Familiarity with a scripting language like PHP.Ability to analyse and improve system scalability and efficiency.Fair understanding of audio/speech/music recognition.Nice to haves:Experience building mobile apps or services to power mobile apps.Familiarity with databases/SQL.Experience working with large noisy images datasets.Masters or PhD in a relevant field.

Benefits:
We are offering a competitive reward in the form of stock options.This is a part-time job so you can keep working in your day job.